I don't think that's quite right - Pillsbury's products include flour, sugar, butter, nuts . . . so I'm pretty sure you can satisfy the bake-off rules with a "from scratch" recipe. I have a Pillsbury cookie cookbook which includes a number of bake-off winning recipes that don't rely on mixes.

Fascinating! The recipe only won second place. I wonder what the first place winner was that year? Funny that the no-longer available frosting was the Pillsbury ingredient, not the Pillsbury flour.

Next week, November 15, is apparently National Bundt Pan Day (who decides these things)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundt_cake If only I weren't on a diet, I could celebrate by making a tunnel of fudge cake. I wouldn't suppose there's a "lite" version out there? Maybe a tunnel of fruit angel cake of some sort? HA!

This month's ~Cooks Country actually has a recipe for tunnel of fudge cake. Apparently, the original tunnel of fudge cake used the frosting mix that was discontinued so you can't use the original recipe.